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Whatever is on your mind about the subject really. I'm seeking to leave it pretty open in this thread really.
Take Care/God Bless.
Not all LLMs are dumb.
In another thread this version came up with a brilliant solution in showing the speed of light in two opposite directions must be same or the cosmic radiation background would be highly anisotropic at 0 degrees and 180 degrees relative to the observer.
I would never had thought up this solution and neither did an astrophysicist I posed the solution to.
Christianity makes this very easy to accept. In the opening chapter of our sacred book, we read "God created man in His image". There you have it. Something, or Someone, is being simulated. Combine this with the teaching that "Ye are little gods" in both the Old and New Testaments. And combine that with the fact that we are the only animal that can create art, and not just art, but representative art, i.e., a man can create an image of a tree, or an elephant, or an image of another man. If you seriously consider all this, plus some other things, Christianity becomes as obvious as the nose on your face.I believe that science is more and more trying to tell us that this is a simulated reality, but that it's just very, very difficult for us to fully accept that, or see that really.
Christianity makes this very easy to accept. In the opening chapter of our sacred book, we read "God created man in His image". There you have it. Something, or Someone, is being simulated. Combine this with the teaching that "Ye are little gods" in both the Old and New Testaments. And combine that with the fact that we are the only animal that can create art, and not just art, but representative art, i.e., a man can create an image of a tree, or an elephant, or an image of another man. If you seriously consider all this, plus some other things, Christianity becomes as obvious as the nose on your face.
Well thank you, but I have to give credit where credit is due. The idea comes from a succinct quote by G. K. Chesterton: "Art is the signature of man."Well done. I was thinking long about art angle myself but ultimately decided it was too rambling and unfocused.
Well thank you, but I have to give credit where credit is due. The idea comes from a succinct quote by G. K. Chesterton: "Art is the signature of man."
I would follow that with, maybe, it could be said that man is the signature of God.
That was funny, but it actually does speak well that he granted us the dignity of freedom. It speaks poorly of us that we misuse it.Doesn't speak well for god lol.
That was funny, but it actually does speak well that he granted us the dignity of freedom. It speaks poorly of us that we misuse it.
I'm not exactly sure what this part of your post means.I was sort of joking....but if you prefer to continue down this line....
I would agree with you if God made us inclined to good and not evil. Christian god demands we act as we are not....as good and virtuous and righteous creatures. He doesn't demand we act as he sees us....vile with sin and inclined towards all manner of vice and badness.
First of all, you'll notice I said "...maybe, it could be said...". So that was a thought off the top of my head, and not a hill I'm ready to die on.If we are his signature, made in his image, then perhaps God lies about how good he really is as much as we do.
I hope you don't mind me jumping in, etc.I would agree with you if God made us inclined to good and not evil. Christian god demands we act as we are not....as good and virtuous and righteous creatures. He doesn't demand we act as he sees us....vile with sin and inclined towards all manner of vice and badness.
If you're referring to God in and of the OT, or even Jesus Christ, then the word you are looking for is "faultless" or "blameless", etc, and it's often decided or determined by ones own level of knowledge or knowing for absolutely sure, etc. God in the OT might have started out with the potential for both good and bad, like us, etc.If we are his signature, made in his image, then perhaps God lies about how good he really is as much as we do.
If it takes 3 hours to dry 3 towels on a clothes line....how long does it take to dry 6 towels?
First of all, you'll notice
I said "...maybe, it could be said...". So that was a thought off the top of my head, and not a hill I'm ready to die on.
But following your thought, no matter how good the parents are, they shouldn't procreate?
They shouldn't produce a child which has the potential to do bad things, when it also has the potential to do good things?
Three hours.
I hope you don't mind me jumping in, etc.
God, in general, or with the most genral usage of the word or term "God", etc, sees both the good and the bad within humans, etc.
If you're referring to God in and of the OT, or even Jesus Christ, then the word you are looking for is "faultless" or "blameless", etc, and it's often decided or determined by ones own level of knowledge or knowing for absolutely sure, etc. God in the OT might have started out with the potential for both good and bad, like us, etc.
Take Care.
Well done @AV1611VET ....
Little known fact around here is that I'm actually a not very advanced rogue AI. People sometimes think Ana the Ist mean "An Atheist" but you'll notice that the letters capitalized are actually A and I.
Ok.I'm just suggesting, like most powerful men who write their autobiography....there's always a narrative bend towards emphasizing one's own good and rationalizing one's own bad....
I mean look at Job.
Agreed. I once met Kamala Harris.I didn't say that lol....I'm not even sure how you got there.
But now that we're here...I've definitely met children that shouldn't have been conceived and parents who shouldn't have procreated.
Well if you produce a child you're producing an intelligent, free will agent.How did it turn to child production?
Well if you produce a child you're producing an intelligent, free will agent.
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